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Startup Turns Fixing Your Grandma's PC Into a Game
First time accepted submitter thecrazyivan writes "As companies like Reddit and Foursquare have shown, Internet users enjoy earning points in arbitrary social games. So why not apply that competitive motivation to something useful, like cleaning up the world's PCs? A startup called Jumpshot is raising funds to launch a new, friendlier form of computer security. Jumpshot is still in its infancy, but it seems to have excited plenty of users with its potential: The company launched a Kickstarter project and almost immediately raised nearly three times its funding goal."
http://www2.b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator/
So people are going to let strangers delete files on their computers. And this is supposed to *improve* security? Ummm, is it only me who sees the extreme irony in this plan?
c:\> findstr /?
...]]
/B Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line.
/E Matches pattern if at the end of a line.
/L Uses search strings literally.
/R Uses search strings as regular expressions.
Searches for strings in files.
FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file]
[/C:string] [/G:file] [/D:dir list] [/A:color attributes] [/OFF[LINE]]
strings [[drive:][path]filename[
Or even better get her an IPAD.
Sorry, but not everyone wants to compile kernels and dealing with a driver breaking Xorg or the UI of Unity/Gnome-Shell. Asking her to find repositories for xfce defeats the purpose as she would not understand that nor need too.
http://saveie6.com/
Hey, I want in! I can create a kickstarter project and give it a cool name. It'll save the world! Enhance productivity! Save kittens! It's a social media internet plugin with synergistic fladoodles to map space age polymers with THE CLOUD for amazing geotargeted ad space and unlimited business opportunities for expansion and growth. And it's written in haskell and assembly, motherfucker, years ahead of it's time. I have my business plan all thought out:
1. Raise money through kickstarter
2. Finish writing business plan
3. ?
4. Profit!
sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
Almost modded you "flamebait" for that one...
So as far as I can tell, even after reading the so called technical explanation, it reboots the computer into Linux and then downloads magic buzzword driven pixie dust from the cloud, thus allowing it to solve all your computer problems.
Hmm I bet emacs would enable to use the webcam and include photos of her grandkids in an email using an automated lisp macro.
You forgot to mention the cute little USB guys.
c:\> findstr /?
/R Uses search strings as regular expressions.
[...]
But findstr is no sed replacement - it can't do search and replace as far as I know.
Also if you're using /R you'll most probably also want to use /C, or findstr will split the string at every space into multiple regexes. I found that very confusing when I used findstr /R for the first time.
Instant search is a wonderful tool. Basically, it is always searching and indexing your hard drive, in order to save you several nanoseconds on the rare occasion that you actually need to search for something.
Instant search, or indexing, is among the first bits of trash that I turn off, if and when I install a Windows operating system.
Would you leave your car idling in the garage all night long, so that when you come out in the morning, you won't need to defrost the windshield?
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
You don't need to be an apple fanboy to suggest/buy an iPad.
But findstr is no sed replacement - it can't do search and replace as far as I know.
And as we know, THIS is the reasons most home users prefer linux.